Infrastructure planning, transaction advisory, and financing

We help investors and asset owners

originate proprietary deal flow, identifying and developing invest-able opportunities. We perform due diligence on the commercial, regulatory, market and political aspects of a proposed investment. We advise them on mechanisms such as viability gap funding, development grants, guarantees and other risk-sharing to attract blended finance.

We help governments and international agencies

develop master plans, integrated resource plans, and pipelines of projects that create economic benefits and are financeable. We develop and appraise projects to see if they are economically, financially, technically, environmentally and socially viable. We structure projects, attract market interest, develop project documents, run tender processes, evaluate bids, assist in negotiations, and help government agencies get to financial close. We also help blend public and private finance so that socially desirable projects can proceed.

Sectors

Infrastructure and markets for social services

Natural resources and primary production

Increasing Live Cattle Exports to Asian Markets

We identified and prioritized new export markets for livestock originating from the Northern Territory of Australia. The Northern Territory was heavily dependent on the Indonesian market for trade of livestock and wanted to diversify to other markets ... Read more

Regulation of Broadband Network Charges, New Zealand

Castalia helped Chorus, New Zealand’s largest telecommunications infrastructure company, identify two regulatory options that would deliver effective price regulation without distorting consumer choice. Chorus was uncertain about the potential future regulatory settings in New Zealand because of the structural separation ... Read more

Alinta Energy Debt Valuation, Australia

Castalia assessed the value of a distressed Australian energy company’s debt. Castalia’s client, a private US investment fund, needed to determine the fair value of the debt and its risk before deciding whether to purchase it ... Read more

Hawkes Bay Irrigation Plan, New Zealand

Castalia forecast irrigation demand and assessed volume risk for the proposed Ruataniwha Plains Water Storage Project. Irregular rain in the region caused periodic droughts and reduced farmers’ ability to raise high value crops on the Ruataniwha Plains ... Read more

Northern Parishes PPP Pre-Feasibility Study, Jamaica

Castalia appraised several options to reduce the water shortage in Jamaica’s North Coast and recommended an economically feasible and financially viable project to increase water supply and meet growing demand. Growing demand for water services driven by hotel developments along ... Read more

Umbulan Springs Project

Castalia appraised the Umbulan Springs Bulk Water Supply Project and found that it was economically and financially viable with Viability Gap Funding. We recommended that the IIGF provide a guarantee if the Provincial Government implemented our recommendations that would mitigate ... Read more

Malawi Water Sector Investment Plan

We prepared an optimized investment plan for Malawi’s water sector, together with a financing plan Projects in Malawi’s water sector were scattered and largely donor-driven, so the government needed a strategy to prioritize investments ... Read more

Merging an Existing Cable TV Network Into a National Ultra-Fast Broadband Network, Australia

Castalia helped a client prepare a rationale for freeing up capacity on its Hybrid Fibre Coaxial (HFC) Cable network and incorporating it into the National Broadband Network. Our client, a cable TV company, aimed to create value by enabling its ... Read more